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I'm sorry for missing last week's post. I was away in San Francisco visiting a friend. We were so busy seeing the sites that I really didn't have any time to write except a little in a my personal journal each evening. I'm just now getting back into the daily writing routine and resuming with my current projects. I've been working a little each day for the past week on the formatting of my upcoming paperback version of "The Boo Brothers: Two Tales of Terror". When the week begins I'm going to go full blast on it so I can get the manuscript uploaded to Kindle Direct Publishing hopefully by the end of the week. I'll need time to review a proof copy of it before publishing it which I'm aiming to do next month and so in time for the Halloween season.

Because I've been busy with the time that I've taken off from my day job, busy with things such as cleaning excessive paper accumulation out of my house and rearranging my book shelves, I'm keeping this post short. However, I will be here next weekend, which will be the third weekend of the month, with a new Book-To-Movie review for you!

See you then!


A giant statue of a woman's legs hanging out of a building's window.
In Haight-Ashbury (the "Hippie" District) of San Francisco our tour bus came across this "50-Foot" chic dangling her legs out the window of this building. (Photo Credit: The blogger)



A bus of tourists observe a statue of a giant woman's legs hanging out a window one of which appears to be kicking.
As you can see, the tour bus tried making a pass at her but she didn't put up with it! I guess it forgot that the Summer of Love ended more than 50 years ago. (Photo Credit: The blogger)



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  1. Alex J. CavanaughSeptember 15, 2019 at 5:32 AM

    Visiting with a friend is more important.
    Those legs are funny. What a sight!

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    1. Steven Arellano Rose Jr.September 16, 2019 at 5:50 PM

      Yeah, I made that weekend an exception. I hadn't seen this friend in over a year since he's been busy with a family and I've been busy with my writing and day job. Still it's always great to get back to the writing routine!

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